HBO Films
by Philip_Marlowe_ | created - 28 Apr 2021 | updated - 10 months ago | PublicThe definitive list of every feature film produced by Home Box Office (HBO) in order of release date.
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1. The Deadly Game (1982 TV Movie)
112 min | Thriller
Retired Lawyers amuse themselves by prosecuting, defending and judging a hapless traveler.
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: George Segal, Trevor Howard, Robert Morley, Emlyn Williams
Votes: 144
2. The Terry Fox Story (1983 TV Movie)
96 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
The true story about the Canadian cancer amputee hero who decided to run across Canada on only one leg to raise money for cancer research.
Director: Ralph L. Thomas | Stars: Eric Fryer, Robert Duvall, Chris Makepeace, Rosalind Chao
Votes: 718
3. Mr. Halpern and Mr. Johnson (1983 TV Movie)
55 min | Comedy, Drama
At the funeral of Mr. Halpern's wife he meets Mr. Johnson who confides in him that he fell in love with Mrs. Halpern even before she met her husband and has been seeing her regularly during all the years of her marriage.
Director: Alvin Rakoff | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Jackie Gleason
Votes: 108
4. Between Friends (1983 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama
Two middle-aged women with nothing in common meet by accident and develop a close friendship while continuing to deal with their own lives.
Director: Lou Antonio | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Carol Burnett, Henry Ramer, Bruce Grey
Votes: 322
5. Right of Way (1983 TV Movie)
102 min | Drama
A dying woman and her husband agree to a joint-suicide pact, whether others like it or not.
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Bette Davis, James Stewart, Melinda Dillon, Priscilla Morrill
Votes: 947
6. To Catch a King (1984 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 115 min | Thriller, Drama
In 1940, two Americans, Joe Jackson and Hannah Winter, attempt to thwart a plot to kidnap the Duke of Windsor during a visit to Windsor.
Director: Clive Donner | Stars: Robert Wagner, Teri Garr, Horst Janson, John Standing
Votes: 175
7. The Cold Room (1984 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A girl who arrives in modern day East Germany begins reliving the horrifying events that happened to a young girl in 1936.
Director: James Dearden | Stars: George Segal, Amanda Pays, Renée Soutendijk, Warren Clarke
Votes: 260
8. The Blood of Others (1984 TV Movie)
175 min | Drama, History, Romance
WWII. In German occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for the resistance and the German administrator Bergmann, who will do anything to gain her ... See full summary »
Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Jodie Foster, Michael Ontkean, Sam Neill, Lambert Wilson
Votes: 624
9. Sakharov (1984 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 118 min | Biography, Drama
Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil rights movement to his receiving the Nobel Peace prize. Sakharov's actions first caused him... See full summary »
Director: Jack Gold | Stars: Jason Robards, Glenda Jackson, Nicol Williamson, Frank Finlay
Votes: 141
10. Flashpoint (1984)
R | 93 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Two U.S. border patrolmen find a buried 20+ year old jeep in the desert with a skeleton, rifle and $800,000. They keep the money. Suddenly, the FBI shows a lot of interest in the car.
Director: William Tannen | Stars: Kris Kristofferson, Treat Williams, Rip Torn, Kevin Conway
Votes: 3,168 | Gross: $3.85M
11. Draw! (1984 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 98 min | Comedy, Romance, Western
In the final days of the Old West, a former desperado faces down a now drunken ex-sheriff, who was his long time nemesis.
Director: Steven Hilliard Stern | Stars: Kirk Douglas, James Coburn, Alexandra Bastedo, Graham Jarvis
Votes: 792
12. Countdown to Looking Glass (1984 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Dramatic doomsday scenario in which the Cold War fully escalates. The story is told through a live news report that follows the apocalyptic world-ending nuclear exchange between the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R.
Director: Fred Barzyk | Stars: Scott Glenn, Michael Murphy, Helen Shaver, Patrick Watson
Votes: 717
13. Forbidden (1984)
PG-13 | 114 min | Drama, Romance, War
In Berlin in the early 1940s, romance is forbidden between the young countess who is studying veterinary medicine and a young man she meets at the home of a former professor. But they fall ... See full summary »
Director: Anthony Page | Stars: Jacqueline Bisset, Jürgen Prochnow, Irene Worth, Peter Vaughan
Votes: 252
14. The Guardian (1984 TV Movie)
105 min | Crime, Thriller
Plagued by crime, the residents of a NYC condominium hire a seemingly over-zealous security expert to patrol the building.
Director: David Greene | Stars: Martin Sheen, Louis Gossett Jr., Arthur Hill, Tandy Cronyn
Votes: 497
15. The Glitter Dome (1984 TV Movie)
R | 94 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
In this seedy neo-noire tale, two Hollywood homicide cops investigating a movie mogul's murder stumble upon a child-pornography ring.
Director: Stuart Margolin | Stars: James Garner, Margot Kidder, John Lithgow, John Marley
Votes: 365
16. A Passage to India (1984)
PG | 164 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.
Director: David Lean | Stars: Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee, Peggy Ashcroft, James Fox
Votes: 20,886 | Gross: $27.19M
17. Gulag (1985 TV Movie)
130 min | Drama
Mickey Almon is a sports star turned reporter covering the athletics in Moscow. Framed by the KGB and forced to confess that he was spying for America, he is sentenced to detention in a ... See full summary »
Director: Roger Young | Stars: David Keith, Malcolm McDowell, David Suchet, Warren Clarke
Votes: 789
18. Heaven Help Us (1985)
R | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A new transfer student to St. Basil's Boys' Prep School tries to fit in while romantically pursuing a troubled young girl.
Director: Michael Dinner | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Andrew McCarthy, John Heard, Mary Stuart Masterson
Votes: 4,983 | Gross: $6.07M
19. Finnegan Begin Again (1985 TV Movie)
115 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Mike Finnegan is nearing retirement and taking care of his senile wife. He can't get her to allow him to throw anything out and their house has become unmanageable. He meets Liz DeHaan, who... See full summary »
Director: Joan Micklin Silver | Stars: Mary Tyler Moore, Robert Preston, Sam Waterston, Sylvia Sidney
Votes: 478
20. Reunion at Fairborough (1985 TV Movie)
110 min | Drama, Romance
World War II vets travel to England for a reunion at their old base. Once there, one (Robert Mitchum) rekindles an old romance with an old flame (Deborah Kerr).
Director: Herbert Wise | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Deborah Kerr, Judi Trott, Barry Morse
Votes: 468
21. Blackout (1985 TV Movie)
100 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A police officer suspects that a local husband and father who has recently undergone facial surgery because of injuries received in a car accident is in reality the same man who committed a quadruple murder several years before.
Director: Douglas Hickox | Stars: Richard Widmark, Keith Carradine, Kathleen Quinlan, Michael Beck
Votes: 1,079
22. Volunteers (1985)
R | 107 min | Adventure, Comedy
1962, after Yale graduation, womanizing Lawrence flees a gambling debt that his rich dad won't pay. He takes his roomie's place as Peace Corps Volunteer in Thai Golden Triangle with 2 other PCVs. Will he survive 2 years?
Director: Nicholas Meyer | Stars: Tom Hanks, John Candy, Rita Wilson, Tim Thomerson
Votes: 10,517 | Gross: $19.88M
23. Sweet Dreams (1985)
PG-13 | 115 min | Biography, Drama, Music
The story of Patsy Cline, the velvet-voiced country music singer who died in a tragic plane crash at the height of her fame.
Director: Karel Reisz | Stars: Jessica Lange, Ed Harris, Ann Wedgeworth, David Clennon
Votes: 5,389 | Gross: $9.09M
24. The Park Is Mine (1985 TV Movie)
TV-MA | 102 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A Vietnam vet takes forceful control of Central Park to remember those who served and died in the Vietnam War.
Director: Steven Hilliard Stern | Stars: Tommy Lee Jones, Helen Shaver, Yaphet Kotto, Lawrence Dane
Votes: 2,399
25. Fortress (1985)
TV-MA | 88 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
After being kidnapped for ransom by four criminals, a schoolteacher and her students flee into a cave and build fortifications in anticipation of a decisive battle with their captors.
Director: Arch Nicholson | Stars: Sean Garlick, Rachel Ward, Elaine Cusick, Laurie Moran
Votes: 3,546
26. Head Office (1985)
PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy
Lazy, womanizing Jack gets employed at the NYC HQ of the multinational conglomerate, INC. Crazy chaos, promotions, firings, suicides etc. seem to be the way of the day.
Director: Ken Finkleman | Stars: Judge Reinhold, Eddie Albert, Lori-Nan Engler, Merritt Butrick
Votes: 1,754 | Gross: $3.39M
27. Murrow (1986 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 114 min | Biography, Drama
Follow legendary news reporter/commentator from his radio broadcasts from the rooftops of London during the Blitz to his TV documentary series "See It Now" and his confrontations with the ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Gold | Stars: Daniel J. Travanti, Stephen Churchett, David Suchet, Robert Vaughn
Votes: 141
28. The Hitcher (1986)
R | 97 min | Action, Mystery, Thriller
A young man who escapes the clutches of a murderous hitchhiker is subsequently stalked by the hitcher and framed for his crimes.
Director: Robert Harmon | Stars: Rutger Hauer, C. Thomas Howell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jeffrey DeMunn
Votes: 52,563 | Gross: $5.84M
29. Odd Jobs (1986)
PG-13 | 88 min | Comedy
Five college buddies start their own moving business only to find themselves tangling with sleazy competitors and the mob.
Director: Mark Story | Stars: Paul Reiser, Robert Townsend, Scott McGinnis, Rick Overton
Votes: 524
30. Sword of Gideon (1986 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 173 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Chronicles a Mossad team hand picked to hunt down the terrorists involved in the 1972 Munich Olympic massacre of Israeli athletes.
Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: Steven Bauer, Michael York, Robert Joy, Laurent Malet
Votes: 1,342
31. Act of Vengeance (1986 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 95 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
In 1969, an administrator runs against the corrupt president of the United Coal Miners Union, and becomes the target of a murder plot.
Director: John Mackenzie | Stars: Charles Bronson, Ellen Burstyn, Wilford Brimley, Hoyt Axton
Votes: 817
32. As Summers Die (1986 TV Movie)
87 min | Drama
The plot centers around a large area of land owned by an old black lady, Elvira Backus. It had been given to her by her one time employer and secret father of her two children, a southern ... See full summary »
Director: Jean-Claude Tramont | Stars: Scott Glenn, Jamie Lee Curtis, Bette Davis, John Randolph
Votes: 867
33. Half a Lifetime (1986 TV Movie)
57 min | Drama
A regular night of poker among for friends turns into a night full of conflict, accusations and self-examinations.
Director: Daniel Petrie | Stars: Keith Carradine, Nick Mancuso, Saul Rubinek, Gary Busey
Votes: 36
34. Apology (1986 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 93 min | Horror, Thriller
For her newest sculpture artist Lily has an unusual idea: During the exhibit she wants to play anonymous apologies. She sets up an answering machine on a special phone line and publicly ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Bierman | Stars: Lesley Ann Warren, Peter Weller, George Loros, John Glover
Votes: 361
35. Florida Straits (1986 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 97 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
A man who spent 20 years in Cuban prison after the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion and a boat captain and his crew go covertly to Cuba to find a cache of gold buried during the invasion. But can they trust each other?
Director: Mike Hodges | Stars: Raul Julia, Fred Ward, Daniel Jenkins, Jaime Sánchez
Votes: 277 | Gross: $0.04M
36. Three Amigos! (1986)
PG | 104 min | Comedy, Western
Three actors accept an invitation to a Mexican village to perform their onscreen bandit fighter roles, unaware that it is the real thing.
Director: John Landis | Stars: Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, Martin Short, Alfonso Arau
Votes: 83,721 | Gross: $39.25M
37. Control (1987)
PG-13 | 107 min | Drama, Thriller
Fifteen strangers take part in an experiment to learn whether such a group can survive in a cramped disaster fallout shelter.
Director: Giuliano Montaldo | Stars: Ben Gazzara, Kate Nelligan, Kate Reid, Burt Lancaster
Votes: 336
38. The Last Innocent Man (1987 TV Movie)
Unrated | 109 min | Thriller
Harry is tired of getting murderers off in court and quits. He has a relation with Jenny. She wants him to defend her separated husband. He allegedly murdered a cop posing as hooker.
Director: Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Ed Harris, Roxanne Hart, David Suchet, Bruce McGill
Votes: 389
39. Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8 (1987 TV Movie)
R | 118 min | Documentary, Drama, History
A dramatized historical recreation of the Chicago Conspiracy trial with present testimonies by many of the participants.
Director: Jeremy Kagan | Stars: Peter Boyle, Elliott Gould, Brian Benben, Robert Carradine
Votes: 260
40. The Quick and the Dead (1987 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Western
A mysterious stranger rides into a homesteading family's life when they are attacked by a ruthless gang.
Director: Robert Day | Stars: Sam Elliott, Tom Conti, Kate Capshaw, Kenny Morrison
Votes: 2,498
41. Long Gone (1987 TV Movie)
110 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Story of the Tampico Stogies, a low minor-league baseball team, and its star player and manager, Stud' Cantrell, as they battle for the league championship amidst the corruption and racism of the American south.
Director: Martin Davidson | Stars: William Petersen, Virginia Madsen, Dermot Mulroney, Larry Riley
Votes: 1,200
42. The Lion of Africa (1987 TV Movie)
115 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
An idealistic young female doctor hires a hard drinking cynical truck driver to take her to town to buy medical supplies for a tribe stricken with cholera. She offers him payment in diamonds sought out by sinister parties.
Director: Kevin Connor | Stars: Brian Dennehy, Brooke Adams, Yosef Shiloach, Don Warrington
Votes: 252
43. Mandela (1987 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 135 min | Drama
Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) become South Africa's first Black President, and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his leadership in negotiating a bloodless revolution in that country.
Director: Philip Saville | Stars: Danny Glover, Tam Mpofu, Priscilla Mundawarara, Mike Davey
Votes: 263
44. The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains (1987 TV Movie)
115 min | Biography, Drama
The true story of Robert Elliot Burns, the prisoner who, after being sentenced to a Georgia chain gang, attempted two daring escapes.
Director: Daniel Mann | Stars: Val Kilmer, Sonia Braga, Charles Durning, Kyra Sedgwick
Votes: 718
45. Laguna Heat (1987 TV Movie)
R | 110 min | Drama, Thriller
After his partner is killed, private detective Tom Shephard returns to his home in Laguna Beach, California, where he finds himself embroiled in a series of nightmarish murders that take him back to the past and some twisted family ties.
Director: Simon Langton | Stars: Harry Hamlin, Jason Robards, Rip Torn, Catherine Hicks
Votes: 182
46. The Impossible Spy (1987 TV Movie)
96 min | Biography, Drama, Thriller
Young Israeli husband Eli Cohen is recruited by the Mossad in the early 1960's and sent to Syria. Telling his wife he has a new job that requires extensive business travel, he takes up ... See full summary »
Director: Jim Goddard | Stars: John Shea, Eli Wallach, Sasson Gabay, Michal Bat-Adam
Votes: 337
47. The Trouble with Spies (1987)
PG-13 | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
George Trent (James Willis), a British spy, has gone incommunicado in Ibiza. Appleton Porter (Donald Sutherland) is sent to find out what happened to Trent. Porter settles into a small ... See full summary »
Director: Burt Kennedy | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Ned Beatty, Ruth Gordon, Lucy Gutteridge
Votes: 581 | Gross: $0.21M
48. Into the Homeland (1987 TV Movie)
110 min | Action, Drama
Deep within the shadowy world of paramilitary white-supremacist movements, Into the Homeland is the story of an anguished father's search for his kidnapped daughter. Ex-cop Jackson Swallow ... See full summary »
Director: Lesli Linka Glatter | Stars: Powers Boothe, C. Thomas Howell, Cindy Pickett, Paul Le Mat
Votes: 190
49. Baja Oklahoma (1988 TV Movie)
105 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Dan Jenkins co-wrote the screenplay based on his novel of the same name about Juanita, a barmaid in Ft. Worth, Texas, who wants to be a country-western songwriter.
Director: Bobby Roth | Stars: Lesley Ann Warren, Peter Coyote, Swoosie Kurtz, Anthony Zerbe
Votes: 409
50. The Tracker (1988 TV Movie)
R | 98 min | Western
After a series of vicious crimes by a renegade group of cowboys, led by "Red Jack" Stilwell, a legendary tracker, Noble Adams is pulled out of retirement to capture Stilwell, dead or alive.... See full summary »
Director: John Guillermin | Stars: Kris Kristofferson, Scott Wilson, Mark Moses, David Huddleston
Votes: 524
51. Steal the Sky (1988 TV Movie)
105 min | Action, Romance, War
An Israeli agent entices an Iraqi jet pilot to defect with his MIG fighter.
Director: John D. Hancock | Stars: Mariel Hemingway, Ben Cross, Sasson Gabay, Nicolas Surovy
Votes: 194
52. Blood Money (1988 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 110 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Clinton is desperate to find his brother's murderer. To do so, he enlists the aid of Nadine, an expensive call girl. Clinton and Nadine get sucked into a plot to smuggle guns to the Contra forces in Nicaragua.
Director: Jerry Schatzberg | Stars: Andy Garcia, Ellen Barkin, Morgan Freeman, Michael Lombard
Votes: 768
53. Tidy Endings (1988 TV Movie)
53 min | Drama
A man, whose companion dies of A.I.D.S., confronts his lover's ex-wife and the two end up building a friendship while coping with the emotional aftermath of the death.
Director: Gavin Millar | Stars: Stockard Channing, Harvey Fierstein, Jean De Baer, Nathaniel Moreau
Votes: 141
54. Lip Service (1988 TV Movie)
67 min | Comedy
A young news reporter schemes to take over the job of a veteran news anchor whose ratings he's been hired to promote.
Director: William H. Macy | Stars: Griffin Dunne, Paul Dooley, Jonathan Katz, Fran Brill
Votes: 89
55. The Christmas Wife (1988 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 73 min | Drama
A widower not wanting to face his first Christmas alone responds to an ad for "social introductions".
Director: David Hugh Jones | Stars: Jason Robards, Julie Harris, Don Francks, James Eckhouse
Votes: 418
56. Dead Solid Perfect (1988 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, Sport
Randy Quaid stars as Kenny Lee, a talented but underachieving pro golfer trying to break through on the tour while learning that the most important things in life go far beyond the game.
Director: Bobby Roth | Stars: Randy Quaid, Kathryn Harrold, Jack Warden, Corinne Bohrer
Votes: 599
57. Dead Man Out (1989 TV Movie)
87 min | Crime, Drama
A psychiatrist is sent to evaluate a convicted multiple murderer whose behavior has become unstable and deranged while on death row for eight years, causing a problem for the courts to carry out execution.
Director: Richard Pearce | Stars: Danny Glover, Rubén Blades, Tom Atkins, Larry Block
Votes: 425
58. Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story (1989 TV Movie)
160 min | Biography, Drama, War
A biographical portrayal of Simon Wiesenthal, famous Nazi Hunter. From his imprisonment in a Nazi Concentration Camp, the film follows his liberation and his rise to become one of the ... See full summary »
Director: Brian Gibson | Stars: Ben Kingsley, Anton Lesser, Craig T. Nelson, Robert Morelli
Votes: 362
59. Third Degree Burn (1989 TV Movie)
100 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Scott Weston is a private investigator who is supposedly hired by a rich businessman to determine whether or not his beautiful wife is fooling around behind his back. During the course of ... See full summary »
Director: Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Treat Williams, Virginia Madsen, Richard Masur, CCH Pounder
Votes: 447
60. Traveling Man (1989 TV Movie)
105 min | Comedy
A poignant comedy about a middle-aged salesman trying to get his life and career back on track while being pushed and antagonized by an aggressive rookie he has been teamed up with.
Director: Irvin Kershner | Stars: John Lithgow, Jonathan Silverman, Margaret Colin, John Glover
Votes: 128
61. Time Flies When You're Alive (1989 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 79 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
Time Flies When You're Alive is a gripping one-man show. Paul Linke recounts, in no small detail the highs and lows of his marriage, specifically around his wife's losing struggle with ... See full summary »
Director: Roger Spottiswoode | Star: Paul Linke
Votes: 55
62. Tailspin: Behind the Korean Airliner Tragedy (1989 TV Movie)
82 min | Thriller
Chronicle of the shooting down of a Korean passenger plane by Soviet air force on 1st September 1983. Over 280 people died in this incident.
Director: David Darlow | Stars: Michael Murphy, Michael Moriarty, Chris Sarandon, Harris Yulin
Votes: 141
63. The Heist (1989 TV Movie)
R | 97 min | Drama, Romance
Framed con-man seeks revenge by planning a racetrack heist.
Director: Stuart Orme | Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Tom Skerritt, Wendy Hughes, Noble Willingham
Votes: 866
64. Perfect Witness (1989 TV Movie)
R | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A witness to a mob killing has second thoughts about testifying when he realizes his family might become a target.
Director: Robert Mandel | Stars: Brian Dennehy, Aidan Quinn, Stockard Channing, Laura Harrington
Votes: 496
65. Red King, White Knight (1989 TV Movie)
R | 86 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
The C.I.A. hears of a K.G.B. scheme to assassinate the Soviet General Secretary and enlists Stoner (Tom Skerritt), an agent retired for ten years, to go to Russia to investigate. He ... See full summary »
Director: Geoff Murphy | Stars: Tom Skerritt, Max von Sydow, Helen Mirren, Tom Bell
Votes: 227
66. Age-Old Friends (1989 TV Movie)
87 min | Comedy
John Cooper is in a retirement home. There are strict rules for the residents, but he refuses to fall into passivity. He flirts constantly with Nurse Wilson and spends time with his best ... See full summary »
Director: Allan Kroeker | Stars: Aaron Alexander, Frummie Blatt, Hume Cronyn, Tandy Cronyn
Votes: 119
67. The Image (1990 TV Movie)
R | 89 min | Drama
When career-focused journalist's investigation indirectly causes a suicide, he questions his own methods and life in general.
Director: Peter Werner | Stars: Albert Finney, John Mahoney, Kathy Baker, Swoosie Kurtz
Votes: 295
68. Montana (1990 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama, Western
Hoyce and Bess Guthrie are long married Montana ranchers who come to a major crossroads in their lives. An oil company has offered to buy them out and Hoyce wants to sell while Bess hopes ... See full summary »
Director: William A. Graham | Stars: Gena Rowlands, Richard Crenna, Lea Thompson, Justin Deas
Votes: 204
69. By Dawn's Early Light (1990 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 100 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A non-NATO nuclear missile is fired from Turkey at USSR, where it detonates. Soviet response is automatic as it's seen as a NATO missile. Can continued escalation be avoided? We follow the US president and a bomber crew.
Director: Jack Sholder | Stars: Powers Boothe, Rebecca De Mornay, James Earl Jones, Martin Landau
Votes: 4,098
70. Framed (1990 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy, Crime
A painter is accused of art-forging. He thinks his girlfriend betrayed him, so it's time for revenge.
Director: Dean Parisot | Stars: Jeff Goldblum, Kristin Scott Thomas, Todd Graff, Michael Lerner
Votes: 446
71. El Diablo (1990 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 115 min | Comedy, Western
When the notorious outlaw El Diablo kidnaps a schoolgirl, her teacher, an Easterner named Billy Ray, decides to rescue her. Incompetent to track her alone, Billy Ray enlists the aid of an unscrupulous gunman.
Director: Peter Markle | Stars: Anthony Edwards, Louis Gossett Jr., John Glover, Joe Pantoliano
Votes: 1,105
72. Hometown Boy Makes Good (1990 TV Movie)
R | 88 min | Comedy, Drama
A smalltown boy moves to the big city to go to medical school. He never tells his proud mother that he dropped out and does not have a successful psychiatry practice like she assumes. He is... See full summary »
Director: David Burton Morris | Stars: Anthony Edwards, Grace Zabriskie, Cynthia Bain, Chris Mulkey
Votes: 83
73. Women and Men: Stories of Seduction (1990 TV Movie)
R | 83 min | Romance, Drama
Three short stories, each focused on a man and a woman. The first is set in the 1940s, the other two in the 1920s. In "The Man in a Brooks Brothers Suit," a businessman of about 40 plies a ... See full summary »
Directors: Frederic Raphael, Tony Richardson, Ken Russell | Stars: Melanie Griffith, James Woods, Carmen Segarra, Felipe García Vélez
Votes: 357
74. Criminal Justice (1990 TV Movie)
R | 90 min | Drama
Denise Moore is robbed and her face is slashed as she is leaving a crack house. At the police station she picks Jessie Williams mug shot and ID's him at a line up. Jessie Williams says he ... See full summary »
Director: Andy Wolk | Stars: Forest Whitaker, Anthony LaPaglia, Rosie Perez, Jennifer Grey
Votes: 380
75. Somebody Has to Shoot the Picture (1990 TV Movie)
R | 104 min | Drama
Raymond Eames, a small-time drug dealer, has been sentenced to death for the shooting death of a policeman. After seven years of appeals are exhausted, the date of his execution arrives. ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Pierson | Stars: Roy Scheider, Bonnie Bedelia, Robert Carradine, Andre Braugher
Votes: 279
76. Judgment (1990 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 90 min | Drama
Fact-based story of a Louisiana priest accused of molesting young parishioners, and of the family of one of his victims, caught between their loyalty to their son and to their Church.
Director: Tom Topor | Stars: Keith Carradine, Blythe Danner, Jack Warden, David Strathairn
Votes: 431
77. Descending Angel (1990 TV Movie)
R | 98 min | Drama, Thriller, War
A recently engaged man getting to know his future father-in-law better unearths clues that the man may have been a Nazi collaborator and a mass murderer.
Director: Jeremy Kagan | Stars: George C. Scott, Diane Lane, Eric Roberts, Mark Margolis
Votes: 431
78. Prison Stories: Women on the Inside (1991 TV Movie)
79 min | Drama
Three dramatic stories inside the walls of a women's prison.
Directors: Donna Deitch, Joan Micklin Silver, Penelope Spheeris | Stars: Lolita Davidovich, Silvana Gallardo, Kimberly Scott, Edith Fields
Votes: 195
79. The Josephine Baker Story (1991 TV Movie)
R | 130 min | Biography, Drama, History
Born poor in St. Louis, Missouri, Josephine Baker achieved fame and fortune through her sizzlingly exotic, erotic performances. Starting life on the American Vaudeville circuit, success ... See full summary »
Director: Brian Gibson | Stars: Lynn Whitfield, Rubén Blades, David Dukes, Louis Gossett Jr.
Votes: 1,588
80. One Man's War (1991 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 87 min | Drama
Based on true events: a Paraguayan doctor and his family seek justice for his son, who was tortured to death by the dictatorial regime of Alfredo Stroessner.
Director: Sergio Toledo | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Norma Aleandro, Fernanda Torres, Leonardo García Vale
Votes: 283
81. Switch (1991)
R | 103 min | Comedy, Fantasy
A sexist womanizer is killed by one of his former lovers and then reincarnated as a woman.
Director: Blake Edwards | Stars: Ellen Barkin, Jimmy Smits, JoBeth Williams, Lorraine Bracco
Votes: 10,510 | Gross: $15.55M
82. Fever (1991 TV Movie)
R | 99 min | Drama, Thriller
Fresh out of prison, all Ray wants is to get back with Lacy, but she's in a stable relationship now with Elliott, a pacifist, and wants nothing to do with him. When she's kidnapped by Ray's... See full summary »
Director: Larry Elikann | Stars: Armand Assante, John Achorn, Joe Spano, John Dennis Johnston
Votes: 272
83. Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991)
PG-13 | 102 min | Comedy
Five siblings are left alone all summer when their mom leaves town and the evil babysitter bites the dust.
Director: Stephen Herek | Stars: Christina Applegate, Joanna Cassidy, John Getz, Josh Charles
Votes: 38,026 | Gross: $25.20M
84. Without Warning: The James Brady Story (1991 TV Movie)
R | 88 min | Drama
Based on a true story, this film focuses on James Brady, the press secretary to Ronald Reagan who was severely injured in an attempt on the president's life. When John Hinckley Jr. Jr. ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Toshiyuki Uno | Stars: Beau Bridges, Joan Allen, David Strathairn, Bryan Clark
Votes: 299
85. Doublecrossed (1991 TV Movie)
Unrated | 109 min | Action, Drama
Based on a true story, this made-for-cable film tells about Barry Seal, a pilot who was a drug smuggler for the infamous Medellin cartel out of Colombia. He was caught by the US Drug ... See full summary »
Director: Roger Young | Stars: Dennis Hopper, Robert Carradine, Richard Jenkins, Adrienne Barbeau
Votes: 335
86. Women & Men 2: In Love There Are No Rules (1991 TV Movie)
R | 90 min | Drama
Three short stories about women and men relationship. The first about a successful boxer in New York City, whose wife only wants to return to her home town in Kansas. The second about a man... See full summary »
Directors: Walter Bernstein, Mike Figgis, Kristi Zea | Stars: Matt Dillon, Kyra Sedgwick, Jerry Stiller, Kevin Rooney
Votes: 338
87. Cast a Deadly Spell (1991 TV Movie)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
In a fantastical 40's where magic is used by everyone, a hard-boiled detective investigates the theft of a mystical tome.
Director: Martin Campbell | Stars: Fred Ward, David Warner, Julianne Moore, Clancy Brown
Votes: 4,842
88. Ricochet (1991)
R | 102 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A District Attorney is terrorized by the criminal he put away years ago when he was a cop.
Director: Russell Mulcahy | Stars: Denzel Washington, John Lithgow, Ice-T, Kevin Pollak
Votes: 20,394 | Gross: $21.76M
89. Prisoner of Honor (1991 TV Movie)
PG | 88 min | Biography, Drama
An investigation into the conviction of a French Army Captain of treason leads a man into the deadliest of conspiracies that helped divide the people of France and set the stage for the First World War.
Director: Ken Russell | Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, Oliver Reed, Peter Firth, Jeremy Kemp
Votes: 1,384
90. Wedlock (I) (1991)
R | 101 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A male prison escapee heads for his hidden loot electronically attached to a female prisoner.
Director: Lewis Teague | Stars: Rutger Hauer, Mimi Rogers, Joan Chen, James Remar
Votes: 9,154
91. For Richer, for Poorer (1992 TV Movie)
PG | 90 min | Comedy
Fresh out of a college, a young man lazes about his family's estate, which irritates his father, a self-made millionaire who hatches a bankruptcy plan that he hopes will inspire his son to get a job.
Director: Jay Sandrich | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Talia Shire, Jonathan Silverman, Joanna Gleason
Votes: 700
92. The Last of His Tribe (1992 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 91 min | Drama, Romance
Ishi, the last Yahi Indian of California, must leave his homeland and learn to navigate the world of the white man in order to survive.
Director: Harry Hook | Stars: Jon Voight, Graham Greene, David Ogden Stiers, Jack Blessing
Votes: 638
93. Afterburn (1992 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama
Based on a true story, one woman takes on the U.S. military and General Dynamics; maker of the F-16, thought to be the very best tactical fighter in the world. Air Force Captain Theodore T.... See full summary »
Director: Robert Markowitz | Stars: Laura Dern, Robert Loggia, Vincent Spano, Michael Rooker
Votes: 686
94. Stepfather 3 (1992 TV Movie)
R | 110 min | Horror, Thriller
That psycho stepfather has escaped from the insane asylum and had his face surgically altered. Now he's married again, this time to a woman with a child in a wheelchair. He goes on a ... See full summary »
Director: Guy Magar | Stars: Robert Wightman, Priscilla Barnes, Season Hubley, David Tom
Votes: 2,066
95. A Private Matter (1992 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 88 min | Drama
The story of Sherri Finkbine, a woman who sought a medically recommended abortion and endured a firestorm of public controversy about her decision.
Director: Joan Micklin Silver | Stars: Sissy Spacek, Aidan Quinn, Estelle Parsons, Sheila McCarthy
Votes: 316
96. The Comrades of Summer (1992 TV Movie)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Sport
To teach a team of Russian wanna-be baseball players the finer points of the all-American game is no easy task, but for a grudgingly resentful, recently fired baseball manager from the ... See full summary »
Director: Tommy Lee Wallace | Stars: Joe Mantegna, Natalya Negoda, Michael Lerner, Mark Rolston
Votes: 396
97. Mom and Dad Save the World (1992)
PG | 88 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
An alien Overlord plans to blow up the Earth but first, he snatches and proposes to marry an Earthman's wife.
Director: Greg Beeman | Stars: Teri Garr, Jeffrey Jones, Jon Lovitz, Thalmus Rasulala
Votes: 5,180 | Gross: $2.03M
98. Citizen Cohn (1992 TV Movie)
R | 111 min | Biography, Drama
As lawyer and power broker Roy Cohn lies dying of AIDS in a private hospital room, ghosts from his past visit him as he reflects on his life and loves.
Director: Frank Pierson | Stars: James Woods, Joe Don Baker, Joseph Bologna, Ed Flanders
Votes: 1,517
99. Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story (1992 TV Movie)
R | 90 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
For a generation, the mobs main money machine was the Teamsters Union. When Jimmy Hoffa disappeared, the fight was on to see who could follow him. Jackie Presser was the son of a long time ... See full summary »
Director: Alastair Reid | Stars: Brian Dennehy, Jeff Daniels, Maria Conchita Alonso, Eli Wallach
Votes: 227
100. Running Mates (1992 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 92 min | Comedy, Romance
In this political satire, a Senator running for President is involved in some controversies when his political enemies expose some hidden secrets about his new wife, a successful author of children's books.
Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg | Stars: Diane Keaton, Ed Harris, Ed Begley Jr., Ben Masters
Votes: 354
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